Optical: systems and elements – Lens – Eyepiece
Patent
1996-08-06
1998-05-12
Pham, Hoa Q.
Optical: systems and elements
Lens
Eyepiece
359686, 359780, G02B 2500
Patent
active
057514950
ABSTRACT:
An eyepiece lens has an apparent field of no less than 40.degree., and minimizes eye relief error. The eye relief includes a distance between a lens surface closest to an eye point side in the eyepiece lens and an eye point. The eyepiece lens comprises an assembly of lens groups including, from the eye point, a first lens group G.sub.1 that includes one positive lens component, a second lens group G.sub.2 with positive refracting power that includes a cemented lens having a negative lens component and a positive lens component, a third lens group G.sub.3 with positive refracting power that includes a cemented lens having a positive lens component and a negative lens component, and a fourth lens group G.sub.4 that includes one negative lens component. The assembly of lenses is configured such that 1.4.ltoreq..vertline.R7/R4.vertline., wherein R4 is a radius of curvature of a cemented surface of the negative lens component and the positive lens component of the second lens group G2, and R7 is a radius of curvature of a cemented surface of the positive lens component and the negative lens component of the third lens group G.sub.3.
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Nikon Corporation
Pham Hoa Q.
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